Description
Sutton Bingham, a parish in Somerset, with a station on the L. & S.W.R., 125 miles from London, and 3 SSW of Yeovil. Post town, Yeovil; money order and telegraph office, North Coker. Acreage, 556; population, 56. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; gross value, £160 with residence. The church is Norman and is said to be the oldest in Somerset, as it is supposed to have been built in 1111. It has a beautiful old Norman arch. While the church was being restored in 1878 an enormous coffin was found in the centre of it containing two skeletons, supposed to be those of the founder and his wife.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
